The Green Wave remained perfect on the season (5-0), though it took a comeback to continue the winning streak. The Green Wave's 5-win start is their first since 2008, the last year Tulane made an NCAA Regional.

Tulane took an early lead after the first inning when they put up two runs on the board, but fell behind as LA Tech (1-3) swung the bats well in the early part of the game.

The Green Wave scored six times in the top of the fifth to put them ahead once and for all against its new C-USA foe.

Tulane fell behind 6-4 going into the fifth inning.But Jake Rogers, Tulane's freshman catcher reached on an error and sophomore left fielder Richard Carthon walked on four-straight pitches. Both runners moved over on a balk by Tech pitcher Phil Maton (0-1). The Louisiana Tech errors continued as Tulane freshman shortstop Stephen Alemais reached on an error that scored both Rogers and Carthon.

Then the Tulane bats got going. Garner blasted his first home run of the season over the left-center wall to score both he and Alemais, followed by the first home run by Deschamp in a Tulane uniform during the next at-bat. The third error of the frame allowed freshman center fielder Lex Kaplan to reach base, and after senior first baseman Bowen Woodson singled to move Kaplan to third, he came home on an RBI-double from freshman third baseman Hunter Hope.

"We had some really good two-strike at-bats, and we stretched the lead," Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones said in a release issued by the athletic department. "It's just one game, but it's good to see us battle back. In this ballpark, I don't think a lead is safe."

In addition to the offense in the fifth inning, Tulane reliever Emerson Gibbs (1-0) came on in the bottom of the frame, and he pitched his best game as a member of the Tulane pitching staff. Gibbs went 5.0 innings in relief while striking out four for the first victory of his career, just one week after earning his first career save.

"Emerson came in and gave us one of the greatest performances," said Jones. "It's not easy to pitch in this ballpark. The ball jumps out of here. Emerson kept the ball down and mixed his pitches and then started playing really well defensively."

Tulane starter J.P. France struggled in his second start of the season. The defense didn't help, committing two errors and Louisiana Tech scored four in the first inning. France then allowed another two runs in the bottom of the second before settling down and pitching through the next two frames relatively unscathed.

France struck out three while allowing five earned runs and issuing no walks in 4.0 innings.

The Green Wave battled back to cut Tech's in the top of the third. Rogers and Carthon reached base on back-to-back singles before Garner brought both of them home on a single down the right field line.

The Green Wave scored insurance runs in the eighth and ninth inning. Garner added a sacrifice fly to score Carthon in the eighth before Woodson hit an RBI-single in the ninth that scored Deschamp.

In the ninth inning, Gibbs hit his first bump in the road on the evening as he gave up three hits, including a two-run home run to LA Tech's Tyler Ervine. However, Gibbs was able to strikeout the final batter of the game for the victory.

Tulane's first four hitters in Carthon, Alemais, Garner and Deschamp all collected two hits apiece, as well as Woodson. Garner totaled five RBI, while Deschamp (three) and Woodson (two) had multi-RBI games of their own.

Carthon scored four times on the evening, making him the first Tulane player to score four runs in one contest since Brandon Boudreaux did so at UAB on April 15, 2012.

The Green Wave will return to J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park for a 3 p.m. game two in the three-game set on Saturday.